Unless the South African government tightens its laws that govern stem cell treatments, unproven stem cell therapy will continue to surge.

Demonstrators dressed as embryos gather outside the French parliament to protest laws authorising research on embryonic stem cells. Across the world, countries are implementing additional laws to use treatments that are still in trial phases.
Reuters/Benoit TessierAugust 20, 2015

Medical tourism is the practice of seeking medical care across international borders. Countries with established medical sectors like the US, Europe, India and Thailand have been traditional destinations…

It’s still early days for cell therapy.
Michael Dorausch/FlickrDecember 3, 2014

You might have heard about Darek Fidyka, the paralysed man from Poland who recently walked again after an experimental cell transplant. It made headlines around the world and raised the hopes of many people…

Hope, faith and miracle are the operative words when it comes to stem cell tourism.
pol sifter/FlickrJuly 15, 2014

Stem cell tourism is when people travel to another country to receive treatments unavailable to them at home. It exists chiefly because most stem cell “treatments” are unproven and not readily available…

Martin Evans received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 “for discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”. Mohit Kumar…

The new test can identify unsafe stem cells, reducing the risk of unwanted tumours forming. Stem cells may one day be used to regrow damaged body parts.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwjones/June 5, 2013

The European Court of Justice has today banned patenting of stem cell inventions derived from human embryos which are capable of developing into a human being. The court held that this exclusion from patentability…

Stem cell experiments on mice have been shown to correct a liver disorder, but would it work on humans?
Flickr/Rick Eh?October 12, 2011

Welcome to part five of _On the brain, a Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Lachlan Thompson, head of the Neurogenesis…

We aren’t quite in the place to say stem cell therapy can treat osteoarthritis and related conditions, in dogs or humans.
TheGiantVermin/FlickrAugust 30, 2011

A recent article published in the Herald Sun newspaper reported anecdotal evidence of animals almost crippled from arthritis or joint damage recovering their function after stem cell therapy. Although…